Research Catalog

Title

Black Madonna : a womanist look at Mary of Nazareth / Courtney Hall Lee.

Author

Lee, Courtney Hall

Publication

• Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xiv, 136 pages ; 23 cm

Subject

• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > Theology
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
• Womanist theology
• Women, Black > Spiritual life
• Women, Black > Race identity
• Womanism > Religious aspects
• Feminism > Religious aspects
• African American women > History
• African American women
• Theology of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: Ain't I a mother? -- part 1. Black motherhood: a history. Motherhood during American slavery -- Still serving: domestic work post-slavery -- Sapphire, Mammy, and Jezebel: stereotypes of Black women -- Part 2. Traditional Mariology. A Mariology primer -- The biblical Mary -- Maryam: Mary in Islam -- Mary's son: christology, virgin birth, and Mary -- A feminist critique of Mary -- Part 3. A womanist Mariology. Stabat mater Dolorosa: Black mothers, slain children -- Womanist theology and biblical interpretation -- Black bodies and the virginity problem -- Magnificat: a freedom song -- Black Madonna: a manifesto of a womanist Mariology.

Call Number

Sc E 19-172

ISBN

• 9781498293792
• 1498293794
• 1498293816
• 9781498293815

LCCN

2017448508

OCLC

1006648203

Author

Lee, Courtney Hall, author.

Title

Black Madonna : a womanist look at Mary of Nazareth / Courtney Hall Lee.

Publisher

Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, an imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-132) and indexes.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-172